The quality of the installation of asphalt pavements has increased year by year, but even today, the quality is often stuck in the details – did the mix load cool down during transport to the site, did the asphalt mix stop due to a technical failure, etc. There are less and less situations where the entire daily production is of poor quality. At the same time, individual or regularly occurring defects spoil the quality almost as much, because even if only 5% of the road surface has deteriorated, the entire road surface still needs to be repaired. Therefore, good quality is characterized by the uniformity of the asphalt pavement.

We have been dealing with the topic of measuring the uniformity of asphalt pavement installation since 2014. To measure the installation temperature of road surfaces, we developed the TGS Pavement device, which allows you to get an accurate overview of the temperature uniformity of the asphalt mixture being laid in real time and save all the data for later analysis. An online environment has been created to display the visualized measurement data and make extracts from the measurement data, through which the work process can be monitored by the users designated by the work orderer.

TGS Pavement is easy to handle, compatible with all paver makes and models, and provides real-time feedback on pavement installation quality to the entire installation team over the web. For the road owner, the device offers accurate documentation of work quality. Together with an appropriate bonus system, TGS ensures a high level of motivation for the entire team involved in laying to implement various measures to achieve the best quality. At the same time, the construction team has complete freedom of choice for the implementation of measures.

Real-time feedback means an opportunity to prevent major problems and maximize the income of both the builder and the road user due to long-lasting coverage and a higher bonus.

The methodology is based on the respective methodologies of Finland and Sweden, which have been adapted to the conditions of Estonia.

TGS offers:

• compatibility with all spreaders
• compliance with the installation quality bonus measurement requirements established by the Road Administration
• real-time monitoring of the work process for all team members over the web
• visualization and analysis of measurement data in a web application
  data download

The device meets the following criteria: